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Buy Nothing is everything
The best things in life — a bag of Guinea pig poop, a sex tent, a screeching animatronic chimpanzee head — are free.
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School’s vendor served chicken, watermelon at start of Black History Month
A New York middle school principal blamed vendor Aramark, which has a history of similar incidents and apologized for a meal change that included racist tropes.
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Ask Amy: My partner wants me to stop being friends with my ex
The letter-writer’s partner doesn’t want him to be friends with his ex, but he doesn’t want to drop the friendship.
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Post Politics Now: Biden to deliver State of the Union speech this week, then hit the road
After a speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Biden is set to travel to Wisconsin on Wednesday and Florida on Thursday.
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Americans not feeling impact of Biden agenda, Post-ABC poll finds
Most Americans think the president has accomplished little or nothing so far, a challenge for the White House ahead of the State of the Union address.
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As debt ceiling talks kick off, Schumer fights to stay at center
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) is carrying with him the lessons of fiscal fights in 2011 and 2013 as he works to keep his caucus together this time around.
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Balloon Incident Reveals More Than Spying as Competition With China Intensifies
There is nothing new about superpowers spying on one another, even from balloons. But for pure gall, there was something different this time.
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U.S. Navy Divers Work to Recover Debris From Chinese Spy Balloon as Diplomacy Dwindles
The effort off the coast of South Carolina is expected to take days, and Navy and Coast Guard ships have been sent to the scene. U.S. officials are watching for retaliation from China.
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Zelensky’s Party Says It Will Move to Replace Defense Minister
The expected move against Oleksii Reznikov comes amid a widening corruption scandal, although he was not implicated in wrongdoing.
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China Finds Itself With Limited Options After U.S. Shoots Down Balloon
Beijing registered “strong discontent and protest.” But there may be little it can do to retaliate.